Nguyen Duc Phong

Nguyen Duc Phong (11 October 1934-25 November 1965) was a general of the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. He commanded communist forces in Saigon during the early years of the war, and was killed in Operation Gray Ghost.

Biography
Nguyen Duc Phong was born on 11 October 1934 in An Loc, French Indochina (present-day Vietnam), and he graduated from a military university near Hue City in 1956. Nguyen was made the commander of Viet Cong communist guerrillas in South Vietnam by North Vietnam's premier Ho Chi Minh, and served under Tran Van Tra. Nguyen occupied a corridor in Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, and launched terror attacks against South Vietnamese Army and US Army troops in 1965 after taking part in ambushes against the SVA. Nguyen Duc Phong was killed in an intense crossfire with US troops in Operation Gray Ghost on 25 November 1965.